The Null Device

Did jazz improvisation arise as a side-effect of schizophrenia? One Professor Dr. Sean Spence from the University of Sheffield believes that one of the pioneers of jazz improvisation, Charles "Buddy" Bolden, began improvising as a means of coping with the onset of "dementia praecox", or schizophrenia; his novel playing style turned out to be so popular that others began imitating it, and the rest is history.

There are no comments yet on ""

Want to say something? Do so here.

Post pseudonymously

Display name:
URL:(optional)
To prove that you are not a bot,
please enter the text in the image on the right
in the field below it.

Your Comment:

Please keep comments on topic and to the point. Inappropriate comments may be deleted.

Note that markup is stripped from comments; URLs will be automatically converted into links.